Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a $9 billion Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility (APVAX) vaccine initiative offering rapid and equitable support to its developing members as they procure and deliver effective and safe coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccines.

Following the incident of an attack on Chattogram's Joint Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Zahir Uddin, the lower court judges have expressed anger and demanded the government ensure their security.

At least two people were wounded today in an explosion caused by a suspected suicide bomber outside a local Federal Security Service building in Russia’s North Caucasus.

For over six years, 38-year-old Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way - with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, just ten minutes walk from his house.

The World Health Organization wants fast-tracking of Covid-19 vaccine and its equitable distribution in South and Southeast Asian region including Bangladesh as a second wave of coronavirus infection looms large.

A minor died after falling from the rooftop of a building in Dhaka’s Uttara area early today.

Nineteen people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A man set fire to his wife’s body with kerosene over their family feud in Barguna yesterday.

The French Development Agency (AFD) will provide a loan of 100 million euros to Bangladesh for reinforcing its role as an active participant in the search for and use of advanced digital solutions in power and energy sector in Bangladesh.

Bhasan Char’s first baby has not been named yet. The 7-pound boy, born to Rohingya parents, does not know it but he is the first newborn of the newly settled island in the Bay.

The Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police has arrested a suspected operative of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from West Bengal's Birbhum district, a senior officer of the force said today.

After a hiatus of 55 years, the rail link between Chilahati in Bangladesh and Haldibari in West Bengal state of India is all set to reopen on December 17 when prime ministers of the two countries hold a virtual bilateral summit and inaugurate the key connectivity between India and Bangladesh.

US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been chosen as Time magazine's 2020 "Person of the Year," the publication announced Thursday.

A US government advisory panel endorsed widespread use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine Thursday, putting the country just one step away from launching an epic vaccination campaign against the outbreak that has killed close to 300,000 Americans.

A fire broke out at a plastic factory in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area early today.

Awami League-backed candidates have won the by-elections of Bera and Ishwardi upazila parishads in Pabna amid allegations of irregularities, controversy and poor voter turnout.

The European Union and Germany have signed an agreement to provide EUR 113 million (nearly Tk 1,145 crore) to Bangladesh’s “Social Protection Programme for Unemployed and Distressed Workers in the RMG, Leathergoods and Footwear Industries.”

The bridge will enhance connectivity and deepen multi-modal transport linkages. However, we need to look at it as an economic corridor rather than just as a transport corridor.

The much-anticipated Padma Bridge now stands across the horizon.

Israel and Morocco have agreed to normalise relations in a deal brokered with US help, making Morocco the fourth Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past four months.